Common operations

To avoid repetition in the guidance, we refer and link to the following common operations.

Create a release

  1. Set id to the notice number.

  2. Set initiationType to 'tender'.

  3. Set ocid as described below.

The notice's ocid will either be a new ocid, or the same ocid as the previous publication concerning this procedure. The notice's ocid will be a new ocid if one of the following is true:

  • The notice is the first publication concerning the procedure.

  • The previous publication is a prior information notice or periodic indicative notice that has multiple /OBJECT_CONTRACT (Object) elements.

  • The notice is a contract award notice for an award within a framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system.

If none is true, then set the notice's ocid to be the same as the previous publication's ocid. Otherwise, set the notice's ocid by prepending your OCID prefix to a unique identifier of your choice (e.g. a version 4 UUID or a suitable system-internal identifier).

If the notice is a contract award notice for an award within a framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system, you must also add a RelatedProcess object to the relatedProcesses array, set its .id to '1', add 'framework' to its .relationship array, set its .scheme to 'ocid', and set its .identifier to the ocid of the procedure that set up the framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system.

Reference a previous publication

If the Previous publication concerning this procedure is neither a prior information notice nor a periodic indicative notice (PIN), or if the PIN has a single /OBJECT_CONTRACT (Object) element, then discard /PROCEDURE/NOTICE_NUMBER_OJ. In this case, the previous publication concerning this procedure is the OCDS release with the same ocid as this release and with the nearest earlier date to this release.

Otherwise, if the Previous publication concerning this procedure is a prior information notice or periodic indicative notice that has multiple /OBJECT_CONTRACT (Object) elements, add a RelatedProcess object to the relatedProcesses array, set its .id to '1', add 'planning' to its .relationship array, set its .scheme to 'eu-oj' (or to a scheme of your choice if outside the EU), and map /PROCEDURE/NOTICE_NUMBER_OJ to .identifier.

Add a party

Add an Organization object to the parties array, and set its .id (string). A party's .id needs to be consistent across all notices. It is recommended to implement a register of organization identifiers to assign consistent identifiers. For more information, see the OCDS documentation.

Add a bids statistic

Add a BidsStatistic object to the bids.statistics array, and set its .id (string) sequentially across all notices for this procedure. For example, if a first F03 notice for a given procedure has nine bids statistics, it uses id's '1' through '9'. A second F03 notice for the same procedure then uses id's '10' and up, etc.

Set time components

If a time component is missing from a date, use T23:59:59Z for end dates and T00:00:00Z for other dates.

Get a translation

  1. Download "Form labels R2.0.9 (zip)" from TED schemas

To translate a label from English to another language:

  1. Find the row with the label in the "EN" column

  2. Take the value in the desired column of the same row

To translate a label from another language to English:

  1. Find the row with the label in the appropriate column

  2. Take the value in the "EN" column of the same row